[ubuntu-uk] non-destructive rescue of Feisty?

[Leon Barker]

On 18/05/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <matthew at truthisfreedom.org.uk> wrote:
> Hi all,
> It then just sits there.  Is there any way of doing a "chroot
> /mnt/root /bin/bash" and then running an apt-get dist-upgrade or
> update in order to resolve this? Obviously I'd need to boot from a
> live CD, but I'm sure the last time I tried to do this it failed
> miserably and I had to blat the HDD and start again.

You are correct. Go into a rescue session with the LiveCD on the boot
options. It will give you a shell where you can carry on your upgrade.

Leon